En un regard
Le château en bref
The Electoral Palace of Koblenz was the residence of the last Archbishop-Elector of Trier, Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony, who had it built between 1777 and 1793 in the new Neustadt district on the Rhine. Breaking with the French and German Baroque tradition, he turned to French architects and chose a very restrained classical style, one of the most remarkable palace ensembles in south-west Germany. The Elector and his sister Maria Kunigunde moved in on 23 November 1786, and the court chapel was completed in 1792. The interior was never finished: the prince fled on 7 October 1794 before the French revolutionary army. The palace later served as a military hospital, then as a Prussian residence from 1815; it was destroyed in the war, rebuilt, and restored in 1996.